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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0346 Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Subject: Shakespeare Society of Eastern India
Fifth World Shakespeare Conference will be run by the Shakespeare Society of
Eastern India, in Kolkata, 14-16 December 2008.
After tremendous success in the First World Shakespeare Conference (in 2000),
Second World Shakespeare Conference (2002 ), third World Shakespeare Conference
in (2004), and Fourth World Shakespeare Conference(2006) we in collaboration
with Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata are going to organise the Fifth World
Shakespeare Conference at Jarosanko. Thakur Bari (Birth Place of Rabindra Nath
Tagore and Rabindra Bharati University Campus) in Kolkata, India from December
14th to December 16th 2008. Key note address, Plenaries, parallel sessions and
Cultural programmes and performances will be presented on seminar days. The
general theme of the conference will be Re-Presenting Shakespeare, and it is
intended that this Shakespeare Conference will explore certain themes,
concentrating in particular on Shakespeare in the Globe & Globalised Shakespeare.
Recent trend of Shakespeare Studies is to largely reinterrogate the iconic
version of the Elizabethan poet and dramatist, thereby dismantling the
traditional stereotyping of cultural texts. Shakespeare as a British poet served
to hegemonize an imperial model of critical reading. But reinterpretations of
Shakespeare throughout the world seem to deflect traditional readings of
Shakespeare. British Shakespeare has been therefore transformed into multiple
Shakespeares. In the emerging terrain of culture studies, alternative
re-readings of Shakespeare have subverted the traditional critiquing of
Shakespeare. This year's conference to be held on 13-16 December, 2008 and it
will negotiate the problematics associated with readings of Shakespeare in terms
of multiple cultural variants in a global context. Central theme of the World
Shakespeare Conference 2008 will be Shakespeare in the Globe and Globalised
Shakespeare . It will therefore seek to address the following issues:
* Shakespeare in Translation /Adaptations /Appropriations
* Shakespeare in Stage Performance
* Pan Asian Shakespeare: folk and classical performance modes
* Shakespeare and Culture Studies
* Comparative Shakespeare
* Political Shakespeare
* Multi Cultural Shakespeare
* Shakespeare and New Interpretations
* Shakespeare and Film
* Shakespeare in the Classroom
* Interdisciplinary Shakespeare: IT, Media and Advertisement, Law,
Communication, Business and Corporate Sector Uses
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send an abstract of your
paper on the above theme/s (not less than 500 words) to one of the following
addresses by e-mail:
Professor Amitava Roy (President, SSEI):
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Dr Subir Dhar (Secretary, SSEI):
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Dr Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay (Convener):
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The deadline for sending the abstract is July 15, 2008
Please note that as we receive a vast number of abstracts for the World
Shakespeare Conference, we have to perforce make a selection from these
submissions. Final selections will be intimated to you by July 30, 2008. Full
papers will have to be received by us latest by October 15, 2008.
The registration fees for participants for outside India wishing to present a
paper is $ 180/- (inclusive of Seminar Kit, business lunch and dinner from 14th
to 16th). For Members of accredited and Registered Shakespeare Societies from
any part of the World a 20% discount on registration fees is obtainable. For
accommodation (if required) please write to us for a list of hotels in Kolkata
ranging from Budget to Multiple-star quality. Registration fees for observer
(not presenting papers) for the Seminar is $ 120/- per person.
You may send your abstract (with a hard Copy and a Soft Copy in Word Format) and
queries by surface mail to:
* Professor Amitava Roy, President, SSEI
Shakespeare Professor of English, Rabindra Bharati University.
6A Maharaja Nanda Kumar Road, Kolkata, WB 700029
* Dr Subir Dhar, Honorary General Secretary, SSEI
Department of English, and Member, Faculty Council, Rabindra Bharati University.
AL 69, Salt Lake, Sector II,Kolkata, WB 700091
* Dr D. N. Bandyopadhyay, Convener, World Shakespeare Conference,
Department of English, Burdwan University.
20 Chandranath Chatterjee Street, Kolkata, WB 700025
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